Reyne Smith had an unfortunate end to his college career, re-injuring the ankle that's caused him problems recently as Louisville lost to Creighton. Still an elite season and college career for him

St Mary's always has Aussies

34 points, 8 assists, and somehow 2 blocks, for Georgia Amoore as Kentucky scraped into the 2nd round

Do we only have Amoore & Poa in the tourny (on the women's side)?

Just about to start a thread on NCAA myself !

Condon has been doing really well.

Amoore also.

Pointy end at present though.

Not many upsets this year -

11 drake over 6 missouri

12 mcneese over 5 clemson

and in women no dramatic upsets

https://www.basketball.com.au/news/every-australian-womens-basketballer-set-for-the-madness-of-march-in-2025#:~:text=The%20Australian%20players%20in%20the,Kentucky%20Wildcats%3A%20Georgia%20Amoore

(plus Erin Condron's UC San Diego were a First Four team and were eliminated)

The Australian players in the tournament:

Columbia: Kitty Henderson
Columbia: Fliss Henderson
Kentucky Wildcats: Georgia Amoore
Kentucky Wildcats: Amelia Hassett
LSU Tigers: Last-Tear Poa
NC State: Lizzy Williamson
Nebraska: Jessica Petrie
Utah Utes: Chyra Evans
Utah Utes: Grace Foster
William and Mary: Rebekah Frisby-Smith
Oregon State: Kelsey Rees
TCU: Agnes Emma-Nnopu
California: Lulu Twidale

Just realised that list doesn't include Isla Juffermans at Louisville either, so there might be others missing too.

That's great that we have so many Aussie's to follow in March

love seeing Aussies in the big games at this time of year. not sure all that list will see big minutesthough.

A big tourney could See Amoore go very high in the draft.

i think williamson is injured

A duke v florida title would be nice.

That would be perfect, Weedy.

Much better chances of seeing those 2 at the end than St Mary's, and I don’t know which other teams have Aussies or Kiwis in them.

Hope you don't mind me including kiwis as well...


Aniwania Tait-Jones (University of California - San Diego)
Charlisse Leger-Walker (UCLA)
Mason Whittaker (American University)
Lilly Parke (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Waiata Jennings (Baylor)
Ben Gold (Marquette)
Tafara Gapare (Maryland)
Lilly Taulelei (Iowa State University)


Not great results for them. Niwa tait Jones got in foul trouble and his team lost by 3. Ben Gold shot well for the perimeter but his team lost by 9. Gapare didn't get many minutes, no points but his team won through

Amoore with a chance to win it unfortunately misses on the buzzer. No sweet 16.
End of great college career.

Great college career indeed.
Will be interesting to see how far she gets in the pro & international arenas.



Duke advance on the men's side with Proctor on fire. 25 points @ 90%, including 7/8 3P

Proctor on fire this morning -= career'highs with 7 3PM (on 8 shots) for 25 points.

Agnes Emma-Nnopu on fire for TCU right now!

Florida got by UConn 77-75 today also, so Alex Condon is also through to the Sweet 16.

How did Condon play today @ballinfan? Does anyone know if there's a site for stats through March Madness?

@Orangelemon Watched the game earlier,
Alex got 5 points 7 rebounds 5 assists, only one field score a slip from their 5out, then they just always collapsed on him and then Walter Clayton Jr went nuts...
the other scores were in the last minute or so from the foul line when he missed a few, but apart from that defence passing all very very solid.

Gators are the first seed in the West, so yeah gun team who might even meet The Blue Devils in the final as they i would imagine are the first seed in the East.

i have not yet found a comprehensive site for all the game stats
will keep looking.

Thanks @Ballin Fan. sounds like he did well considering they swamped him. Let us know if you find a comprehensive stats site!

Great to see TCU women in new territory - never gone this far.

Just hope they get no injuries and their main movers can keep it up. Last game bench didn't play much.

Last-Tear Poa and LSU are through to the Sweet Sixteen on the women's side.

Duke vs Arizona coming up! Proctor vs Dell'Orso (not a likely 1v1 matchup though)

Men's Sweet Sixteen Draw
--------------------------
BYU (Maot Mag) vs Alabama
Florida (Alex Condon) vs Maryland
Duke (Tyrese Proctor) vs Arizona (Anthony Dell'Orso)
Arkansas vs Texas Tech

Ole Miss vs Michigan State
Kentucky vs Tennessee
Michigan vs Auburn
Purdue vs Houston

kelsey rees highest scorer for Oregon State but they lost to the Tar Heels

the pace of the Duke v Oregon women's game was sensational - outstanding athletes

read a report that juju watkins has done her ACL

Rees had a double-double in that game.

JuJu is done. ACL.

Women's Seet Sixteen Draw

Duke vs north Carolina
Maryland vs South Carolina
LSU (Poa) vs NC State (Williamson - Inj)
Ole Miss vs UCLA

Notre Dame vs TCU (Emma-Nnopu)
Tennessee vs Texas
Oklahoma vs UConn
Kansas State vs USC

ESPN is now on Disney+ and is showing heaps of games tomorrow! This is great for people like me who don't have Foxtel or kayo. Happy days!!!

Florida into elite 8, Condon injured early but came back.
Duke up next vs Arizona. Proctor + Dell'orso.

Forida Gators get past Texas Tech in the Elit8 today by five coming from hehind.
Alex Condon in 28 mins, 7 points 7 boards 1 assist.

I've been very impressed with Proctor, could team role player who gives a bit of everything.

very tough loss for Duke women - a good team playing good basketball at present - easily could've won it - that's how close it is this year

men i'm thinking duke v florida final - but remember it's March madness

Hopefully we get

Duke(Proctor) vs Florida(Condon) in the men.
LSU(Poa) vs TCU(Nnopu) in the women.

Doubt it though.

Poa and LSU bundled out.

Don't think tcu is gonna make it either.

"The four No. 1 seeds in the 2025 NCAA men's tournament have turned out to be the four left standing. No. 1 overall seed Auburn joined Duke, Houston and Florida in the Final Four with a win over Michigan State Sunday. It's the first time since 2008 that all four No. 1 seeds will make up the Final Four and just the second time ever."

In the women's, it’s three top seeds plus uConn.

weedy texas totally shut TCU down - they had them so well scouted.

No Juju for SC opened the door for Uconn.

Florida playing 5 on 8 today, ref's giving them the royal screwjob.

Clayton to the rescue.

Condon fouls out with 1 point, hopefully he can step up in the championship game. Great win by Florida.

Dam proctor with a stinker and they lose to Houston.

Condon & the Gators trail Houston by 3 with 3:24 left in the game

Gators have won it in two. 65-63 !

Loved what Alex has done this tournament. 12 and 7 in the final
And his second half strength and physicality against Johni Broome in the semi was instrumental.
With his Draymond Green style of skillset in his 6'11" frame
Pistons Wizards Lakers and Warriors are alll now being tipped as possible destinations.

And he is an NCAA Champion ! Well done Alex Condon.

Congratz to Florida.

For the Boomers, Condon still has alot to work to do before he's in the conversation.

Congrats to Alex. Quite a year he has had!

Now, does he declare?...

He has declared.
He is on all the projection boards.
He moved up most of the boards from the second round into the first round after the Auburn game.
But as others declare he could go down again.
But yeah
He will be locked in a gym now working on that jumper I expect

He is declaring. Doesn't make it he is going AFL

Great effort and fantastic result for Florida.

Love that Alex may now be a lot closer to achieving his dream. Some great hustle plays, especially at the end.